The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25

around all night with science, every day will be Tuesday by and by, as the hymn has it. You. will either have to go to bed or go to Bcd- lam."
 I believe that the question, "Where was Moses when the light went out?'' has never been satisfactorily answered. I am, however, in position to tell where the professor was when his landlady turned off the gas at the meter at eleven o'clock the next night. He was reveling, as usual, in the paths of science, and he told me he never got such fright in his life. He thought he had become suddenly stricken with blindness, malady which his physi- clan had predicted at the time he had to take to glasses. I hope the fright has done him good.
 The professors method of navigat- ing London is very peculiar. His mind seems to give his body the gen. eral direction when he starts for any place, and after that he sinks into rev. erie and lets the body work out the problem alone. The professors body threads the intricate mazes of London apparently without mental assistance. The professor is a splendid guide in a fog when everybody else in London is lost. But if you arouse the professors mind so that it takes the place of in- stinct, the professor is as helpless as anybody. In going home from his class he always.takes the same route, and you can always count on the pro- lessor taking certain turn at cer- tain time, and thus, if wanted to meet him, merely took my stand on his route at the right honr and very soon would see the professor with bowed head working his way along the crowded thoroughfare noticing nobody. It was thus that I met him after had been absent from London over year. I stood directly in his way and he ran into me.
 'I beg your pardon, sir" he said, and turned to the left. Again I planted myself before him and again we collided. He used the same phrase, evidently not knowing he had run into the same man; then turned to the right only to collide again.
 "See here," I cried, ''do you want the whole pavement to walk upon? Whats the matter with you? Are you drunk, sir? This is the third time you have run against me. won't stand it, sir!"
 ''I really beg your pardon, sir. It was very stupid of me. sincerely hope have not injured you, sir"
 "Only by not recognizing me, pro- lessor. Nothing inflicts so deep an in- jury as to get the cut direct from persons old friend or by one who was once a friend"
 "Bless me-" he said, ''is this you? thought you were thousands of miles away. Curious that I should run against you in London"
 "No, professor, the curious thing is that you don't run against everybody that happens to be in London"
 The last time walked home with the professor dense fog hung over London. The air was cold and of course damp. When we entered the professors rooms he lit the gas and then applied the match to the neat pile of fuel that was heaped up all ready for lighting. The dense smoke instead of going up the chimney as all well regulated smoke should do, poured forth into the room. They don't have the sheet iron contrivances for placing over fireplaces in England that we have in America, at least I have never seen one there. The sub stitute is generally an open newspaper held over half the orifice and then the flame usually consents to go up the chimney and burn the paper if it can. 1 tried the newspaper dodge, but it didn't work. The room was filled with smoke. The professor threw open the doors, but still the smoke poured into the apartments.
 Good gracious!" cried, "what's to be done?"
 "Pm sure don't know" answered the coughing professor. "Ring the bell. if you can find it."
 groped around for the bell handle and pulled it. The landlady's servant came running up the stair. She took in the situation at glance. Seizing the newspaper that had been exper- imenting with she twisted it up and set fire to the loose end of it. This paper torch she thrust up into the chimney. For moment the flame came down. The next it was roaring cheerMlly up the flue. The flame of wood and coal followed right merrily. The girl then pulled down the top sash of the window and pushed up the bottom one, and in few moments the room was free from smoke and the fire burning as brightly as it ought to do on such an evening. Meanwhile fhn lon rnad nrofacsnr and rnusolf hnI